The new Chinese America
Subtitle: class, economy, and social hierarchy
By: Xiaojian Zhao.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780813546919; 9780813546926
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- History; Chinese Americans -- Social conditions; Chinese Americans -- Economic conditions; Community life -- United States -- History; Immigrants -- United States -- History; Social classes -- United States -- History; Dominance (Psychology) -- United States -- History; United States -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Social conditionsEthnic relations
Description: "The 1965 Immigration Act altered the lives and outlook of Chinese Americans in fundamental ways. The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, in order to reveal the emergence of a new social hierarchy after 1965. In this study of contemporary Chinese America, Xiaojian Zhao uses class analysis to illuminate the difficulties of everyday survival for poor and undocumented immigrants and analyzes the process through which social mobility occurs."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Rethinking Chinese America; title: The new Chinese American population; title: Drawing lines of class distinctions; title: "Serve the people"; title: The "spirit of change"; title: Surviving poverty in an ethnic social hierarchy; title: Conclusion: Inclusion or exclusion?